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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 25584619, member: 104064"]That's so lame. That insensitivity causes someone to just keep it and not say anything the next time it happens. My kid found $100 on the floor under our table at a restaurant. We had a long discussion about the ethical dilemma this presents. The person who dropped it may have left hours ago and not known where they lost it anyway. If we give it to the staff, they have to wait and see if anyone comes back to claim it. They could tell us later that someone came back for it, keep it themselves, and we wouldn't know. I didn't think about security cameras at the time, but it seems unlikely that dropping money under a table is going to be visible. In the end, we decided to just keep it. It seemed like otherwise we'd be passing an ethical problem on to someone else. I'm not sure what the "right" decision was. As an employee you have a different obligation I think. I found a wallet in a campground bathroom stall in Germany a long time ago. It had 80 marks in it. Since it had ID, I turned it in to the front desk. Later after it had been claimed, the campground gave me a free beer. Not sure if the beer was purchased by the wallet's owner, but it was a nice gesture.[/QUOTE]